Undergraduate To Spend 30 Months In prison for Internet Love Scam
Justice Kudirat Jose of the Lagos High Court in Ikeja on Thursday sentenced an undergraduate, Rilwan Adedigba to 30 months imprisonment, for defrauding an American woman, Zen Cariboso, of $1,100 (N176000) through an internet love scam.
Justice Jose handed down the verdict after the convict, who claimed to be a student of University of Cairo, Egypt, pleaded guilty to a five counts charge of stealing and possession of fraudulent documents preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The 26-year-old Adedigba was sentenced to six months imprisonment on each of the five counts.
According to Justice Jose, the sentence is to run concurrently beginning from June 8, when he was arrested for the offence.
The judge, who directed the convict to refund the 1,100 dollars to the victim of his crime as restitution also ordered him to forfeit the car he had bought from the proceeds to the Federal Government of Nigeria.
The court further diected Adedigba, who had entered a plea bargain agreement with the EFCC, to write an undertaking to be of good behaviour after his release from prison.
While narrating the facts of the case, the counsel to EFCC, Mrs Olubunmi Bosede, informed the court that Adedigba committed the offences on January 30 in Lagos.
The lawyer also stated that the convict falsely represented to Cariboso that he was Murphy Paul, a white American living in Nigeria, who was in love with her.
She said Adedigba used the scam to obtain the money from the woman.
According to the prosecutor the offences is contrary to Sections 390 and 318 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2011.
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